Used this as a slide in a security talk I used to give! Says a lot.

You don’t have to be wealthy to put all your assets in a trust. Everyone should do it if for no other reason than skipping probate court and taxes.

Stopping is no longer an option unless Putin wants to crash the Russian economy.

The Vietnamese and Afghans could probably tell us a thing or two.

One aspect I don’t think many appreciate is the deterrent effect of private gun ownership. The fascists would have already overrun us were we not armed. Notice the major ICE raids have been in NYC and California? Those are the two places in America with the strictest, and often dumbest, gun laws. Anecdotally, being visibly armed likely saved me two ass beatings in the past year. LOL, one guy was so fucking mad he was shaking, choking himself to be polite.

Most of our military might can’t be brought to bear on civilians. The examples you gave are purpose built to fight another military on their turf. The Air Force isn’t going to deploy fighter jets to put down a riot. And NONE of those things will continue working about a week after civilians pull support.

Nah. Bills don’t appear overnight, been in the works for a minute.

Kaepernick’s protest was the compromise. The time for compromise is fucking over.

I use ChatGPT once a day or so. Yeah, it’s damned good at simple facts, more than lemmy will ever admit. Yeah, it’ll easily make shit up if there’s no answer to be had.

We should have started teaching tech literacy and objective analysis 20-years ago. FFS, by 2000 I had figured out that, “If it sounds like bullshit, it likely is. Look more.”

Also, after that post, I’m surprised this site hasn’t taken you out back and done an ol’ Yeller on ya. :)

Nah. This seems a transparent attempt to gather political good will. The Nazis have whipped our ass with their social-media ground game. This is simply another tentacle.

Said here before, I clean the local woods on every trip. I can tell where I haven’t been for awhile by the trash.

It’s made a serious impact! Ya know, the whole “broken windows” thing? Most of the crap is from 3 things:

• People chunking beer cans. I can understand (without condoning) that they’re likely underage and don’t want to get busted.
• Snack wrappers. Again, likely kids given the waste I find. That’s on the parents.
• Crap that floated down from higher ground. People see trash and assume it was chunked on purpose. Nope. Tons of it simply flooded down from spilled trash cans, fell out of the car when exiting, shit like that.

We ALL litter, believe that. No matter how hard we try our waste gets away from us. Hell, I’ve found my own beer cozies on various trails, 4 times in the last year. I find my own crap at our camp every trip. “How the fuck did I drop that?!” Oops. Pick up more than you can possibly lose. That’s all a man can do.

LOL, my kid’s when boating, “No daddy! Don’t go mess with that!” Now? They’re actively hunting trash and fishing tackle. Hell, my wife was the same way and now makes us turn around for fishing bobbers.

Giant space rocks would like a word.

Why would I watch videos on a shitty little screen? My PC is hooked to 40" and 55" TVs.

Did you read the text messages?!

The United States military strength has, until very recently, been focused on the ability to successfully prosecute war on two major fronts and one minor front.

PRO TIP: Take your soap out of the box, store it in the open to dry. I will last 4x as long and work just as well.

I was gonna say. You’ll get arrested in 2067.

I can’t do that. :( I’m often wanting a part for a project or just the right thing for, whatever. FFS, I save broken glass for when I need to cut it down to fix something.

If you don’t own a kayak you must buy one now. And BTW, FB Marketplace often has good deals.

Not marked NSFW for me on a PC with Firefox.

Because I don’t watch videos on my phone.

YouTube has broken uBlock and Firefox. Still works on Edge, but I’d rather not switch browsers back and forth. Yes, I’ve cleared my cache.

Anyone?

Never occurred to me to even look for such a thing!